by Chris Chase, USA TODAY Sports

by Chris Chase, USA TODAY Sports

Welcome to USA TODAY Sports' live blog for the 2013 NCAA tournament selection show. We'll be updating this page throughout the announcement of the brackets with instant reaction, updates from the best of Twitter and as much faux outrage as we can muster.

We're wrapping things up for the live blog but are just getting started with wall-to-wall coverage of the 2013 NCAA tournament.

And because it wouldn't be a live blog without Final Four predictions:

Duke, Gonzaga, Florida, Indiana

Title game: Indiana over Gonzaga

6:52 p.m. ET --

Clark Kellogg has 11 teams on his "teams to watch list." The list doesn't include No. 1 or No. 2 seeds, so you can reason that he actually has 19 teams on his list. When one of those 19 teams cuts down the nets in three weeks, don't say Clark Kellogg didn't tell you.

6:49 p.m. ET --

Bobinski on Tennessee being left out of the field: "They honestly didn't beat very powerful teams and struggled to win on the road during the course of the year. And the sweep by Ole Miss of Tennessee was a factor as we evaluated them in the final analysis." There's no reason not to believe him, but I can't help but think the committee looked at UT's two December losses to Georgetown and Virginia and saw they scored 36 and 38 points in those games, respectively, and opted to give them a bid to the 1952 NCAA tournament instead.

6:48 p.m. ET --

In a year without much outrage, the question and answer period with Bobinski has been appropriately toothless. Seth Davis tried to get riled up about Middle Tennessee State making the field with only one win over the RPI top 100, but seeing as how someone on set clapped when MTSU was announced into the field, it came across as forced.

6:46 p.m. ET --

Doug Gottlieb prefaces his statement about Gonzaga not deserving a No. 2 seed with "to be completely candid." Yeah, we know, Doug.

Bobinski: "In our judgment, [Gonzaga] is a very complete, very strong basketball team. In our collective estimation, they deserved to be on that No. 1 line."

Gonzaga's Gary Bell, Jr. (Photo: Getty)

6:44 p.m. ET --

Bobinski: "Very few bids were stolen, so we really had maximum availability for the field." The NCAA has been cracking down on bid thievery, apparently. It's about time this growing menace has been addressed.

6:41 p.m. ET --

Mike Bobinski, selection committee chairman, says Indiana was locked in as a No. 1 seed on Saturday. It's a scintillating tidbit with which to open the -- zzzzzzzzz.

6:37 p.m. ET --

About 35 minutes ago, we said Doug Gottlieb was refreshing. That seems like a long, long time ago. He has monopolized the show by complaining about Florida's seed like it's the biggest injustice since Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas.

6:36 p.m. ET --

Last four teams in: La Salle, Boise State, St. Mary's, Middle Tennessee State

Seth Davis applauds the committee for leaving out the major conference teams. We fully agree. The Marylands and Kentuckys had chances to get into the tournament and couldn't close. Backing in should be reserved for the NHL playoffs.

Teams left out of the field of 68: Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland.

Teams that have reason to beef about being left out: (None)

6:33 p.m. ET --

New Mexico got a No. 3 seed and will play Harvard in the first round. In the same pod, Arizona will play Belmont. This is the pod you'll obsess over for an hour and still manage to get every pick wrong.

6:32 p.m. ET --

Boise State and La Salle are the last two bubble teams in the tournament. Yes, Virginia, there is an NIT.

The most electric player in the field, Marshall Henderson, will play the least electric team in the field, Wisconsin. A contrast of styles!

6:31 p.m. ET --

Pittsburgh-Wichita State is the 8/9 game in the West that you'll assume you picked correctly but will later realize you didn't.

6:29 p.m. ET --

Gonzaga gets the No. 1 seed it deserved. They're in the West and have New Mexico and Ohio State as other top seeds in its region.

6:28 p.m. ET --

Marquette earns a No. 3 seed in the South and would face the winner of Butler/Bucknell. The Golden Eagles will play Davidson in the second-round. Could David(son) pull off a Goliath upset again?

6:24 p.m. ET --

If Bucknell is going to play giant slayer again, it'll have to be against a mid-major giant in Butler. They'll play in the 6/11 games in the East. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but one of our biggest selection committee pet peeves is matching up two smaller schools in games like this.

6:22 p.m. ET --

Washington D.C. could see a 1987 finals rematch in the Sweet 16 if Indiana and Syracuse advance. Miami got the No. 2 seed in the East, setting up the stage for Gonzaga to be No. 1 out west.

6:20 p.m. ET --

Indiana goes East and would play a regional in Washington D.C.. Expect to hear something about that, since Louisville got the coveted Indianapolis regional. The Hoosiers would face N.C. State or Temple in a third-round game in Dayton.

6:15 p.m. ET --

Kansas, Georgetown, Florida, Michigan and VCU are the top seeds in the South. A potential Kansas-North Carolina third-round game is the marquee matchup. UNC will have to beat streaking Villanova first. Georgetown and Florida facing off in a rematch of a canceled game from earlier this season is another potential highlight.

6:10 p.m. ET --

Onto the South! Kansas received the No. 1 seed and will play its opening games in Kansas City. And in a pure "coincidence," Kansas could face North Carolina in the third round. Total coincidence, the selection committee will lie.

6:08 p.m. ET --

Seth Davis: "A potential Duke-Michigan State matchup. That's a bad matchup for Duke." Always through the blue-tinted glasses, Seth! (He's a Duke grad.) Why is that not referred to as a good matchup for Michigan State? I think the worst matchup for Duke would have been Lehigh. Or Maryland. Or refs with a keen eye for flopping.

6:07 p.m. ET --

The top seeds in the Midwest are: Louisville, Duke, Michigan State, Saint Louis. The other big news is that Middle Tennessee State got a bid to the tournament. But they'll play in that awful First Four games, so it's sort of a wash.

6:05 p.m. ET --

Duke is the No. 2 seed in Louisville's region. They will play America's new favorite team, Albany. Does this mean Miami is getting a No. 1 seed? Or does 0-28 Grambling still have hope?

6:04 p.m. ET --

Louisville is the No. 1 overall seed. Unlike in year's past, CBS has not announced the other No. 1 seeds. In other words, keep your fingers crossed, Grambling!

6:02 p.m. ET --

In addition to cupcake eating, Doug Gottlieb is providing a shot of life to the usually-staid CBS studio show. Charles Barkley has served the same function in recent years, the main difference being the fact that Gottlieb has watched college basketball games this year.

5:59 p.m. ET

CBS has been cutting around the country to interview various coaches. If you're looking for insight, I suggest looking elsewhere. (A Marshall Henderson press conference, perhaps?) Here are the coaches CBS has interviewed, ranked in ascending order of smiley-ness: Mark Few, Tom Crean, Steve Alford, Bill Self, John Thompson III, Doug McDermott, Jim Larranaga.

5:55 p.m. ET --

Steve Alford and New Mexico deserved a better camera angle.

5:50 p.m. ET --

Barkley's final salvo of the pre-show: "If you get a bunch of ugly girls together and pick out a homecoming queen, that doesn't mean she's the homecoming queen." I think he was talking about the Big Ten, but who knows. There's an equal chance he was talking about the Miami Heat, American Idol auditions or the papal conclave.

(USA TODAY Sports)

5:47 p.m. ET --

With 13 minutes to go until the Selection Show, CBS cuts to their NBA crew. And by NBA crew, I mean, "guys who act like they know about college basketball for three weeks every March." Come to think of it, that can describe most people.

5:34 p.m. ET --

Sitting through CBS interviewing John Thompson III while the brackets await is like when you're 8 years-old and have to stand at the top of the stairs before going to see what's under the Christmas tree. Only, in this case, there's a lot more sweating and awesome scarves.

Biggest possible Sunday controversy that everyone will forget about by Monday: Will Indiana or Louisville get placed in the Indianapolis regional?

Template for post-bracket complaint: "I can't believe [mid-major team without a good strength of schedule] got a [higher seed/No. 1 seed/made it into the tournament] instead of [major conference team with three ghastly losses to teams the mid-major beat by 15]."